Once Dr. Hunt and I spoke about this project I immediately called Dr.VanMetre to go over logistics and to find out if she had any ideas already. To my benefit, she is giving me creative freedom - allowing me to come up with whatever I would like. This is kind of a double edge sword, but over the years I've figured out that communication with the client is key. If the client gives you creative freedom, you must be willing to update them everyday on the design. You don't want to get to far during the design phase to find out that they don't like design. Even though I have creative freedom with the ELIT website, I won't be as "lost" because of all the content already within the department. Okay on to the first sketch tonight. As you can see I've included a basic idea of how I would like the site to function. Websites generally have 3 main sections: HEADER (the top) BODY (the middle) and FOOTER(the bottom). Today you see all kinds of new layouts with sidebars, secondary navigation, tertiary navigation, multiple columns etc... The ELIT website will be simple and clean, keeping information in the forefront of the design. Let me know what you think! I plan on adding more sketches between now and next Thursday, so stay tuned! The next post will include more sketches of the UI (user interface) as well as dimensions of the website. Hopefully if all goes well this week, i'll be able to post a photoshop mockup of the homepage and additional pages. If you want to keep up with the project - make sure you follow me on twitter and subscribe to the blog!!!
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